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Black Box - An essential podcast to help us stop and take stock of just what we’re doing with technology. Only in the past two years has AI really exploded from a niche field of interest into a global phenomenon aiming to change the way we work, consume and live, and we haven’t taken much time to ask whether or not that’s actually a good thing.

In Black Box, the Guardian’s Michael Safi speaks to researchers behind some of this technology to try and uncover what exactly is in the “black box” - the driving force behind AI applications that obscures authorship and eliminates attribution.

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